27 April 2007

just a quick post about yesterday's poetry slam @ cafe atlantik in freiburg:

for me, it went really well. i performed gewissensbisse and to my surprise the jury voted me into the finale. my first poetry slam finale, that was. as competition was tough (pauline füg and tobias heyel as a duo, tommy tesfu, and lars ruppel amongst others), i hadn't expected that to happen at all. indeed, if i had, i had brought along another second text but Die Resignation. i wasn't in the mood for reading it and it proved to be an absolutely wrong text for a poetry slam finale, too. from now on, i'll bring along different stuff. just like on saturday at the kiezmeisterschaft, for a second time i got the impression that the audience clearly prefers funny texts. while i can understand that, i think there's a latent danger (not experienced enough yet to call it trend) to confuse poetry slams with stand up comedy events. good that sebastian 23, who moderated the slam, could keep the audience in good humor. in the end it was tommy tesfu who came first with a piece on madonna and her mad black-baby-adopting-antics.

i brought my camera along and took pictures, some of which i'll post here on sunday.